How white are they . When i say, how white are they, she will answer me, no, no, good range. [laughter] in that, i can tell you we have had every student we have had, they are now waiting or trying to figure out how they can find money so they can come back and work at women with a vision. We email. We talk. That makes me feel like we are doing something right, when students who could go off and make major money are trying to figure out how they can take care of themselves in this city so they can organize and do the work with us it says a lot. I think it is about transformation on both sides. It is about being willing and being open and understanding where you come from, what is your privilege, how it is that folks like you can use your privilege, and what it is you can use it for to move the effort forward. It is not without black people having no privilege. I understand that they do. Identify what that is. Black people know what white peoples privilege is. What people often dont know what black peoples privilege is. Having that conversation, which is a difficult conversation people often say they want to help what does that mean . You are coming in, writing in on the horse ive got the flag on and im going to straighten that isy out no, no, not how it works. People that have done this work deon ornnot speak for susan trust is a huge issue. You can come with all the money in the world, and you can set it right on the table, and you can lease. Do you understand what im saying . If you want to have a relationship with me, understand what it is you are living in. We are living in this together. How do we get past everything that we have been told, what i have been told, what you have been told, the myths, the misnomers, all of that . I actually am the americorps vista leader here at tulane at the center for public service. Vista, and a team of a lot of them are recent college grads. They finished in may or maybe a couple years before that or they might be grad students. We have a couple of folks outside of that range, like myself, the we are really a minority but we are a minority. Training, asking about race and gender or equality or inequality, one of the things, especially with the Trayvon Martin case that was mentioned before, one of the things that i think a lot of us conversation with people that we see everyday, people that we know, that we love and care about us, is that the experience of being an american if you are white is very different than the experience of being an american if you are not white. For me specifically, it is black, but i think that is also true for other people of color, for women in general, for the lgbt community. It really hit home for me because my boyfriend is white. Abouthad conversations Trayvon Martin. He was saying, it was just too dumb people who made mistakes. This idea, we dont know what trayvon was up to that night that was something that i heard on a local radio station. You know what i mean . They were saying, it wasnt verified that trayvon wasnt a criminal. One of the things that i was surprised to see come out was the conversation about the conversation that we as a community have to have with each and every one of our sons about how they are perceived when they are out on the street, no matter what they are doing, and how they should respond to that, that it is their responsibility to come home, that it is not the time for their pride, they need to take whatever abuse that is. The thing is, we have to have the same cons were conversation with our daughters. Say that it is just an issue with our sons. Our way of thinking as women of color, as black women, we need to sit down and think about how it is we have internalized this oppression. Being oppressed, not being able to speak in our own voice and to say what it is we need to say, the idea of the angry black woman, that is not who we are. We definitely need to consider our girls. We only think about our boys. Our girls are being swept under the rug. [applause] my point actually was going to be that i think that we do have a similar conversation with each and every one of our daughters, but that is a different conversation about perception. It tends to be the perception that they internalize about themselves. The story that i found myself telling over and over again to my boyfriend and on facebook and two other people that wanted to talk about this case was, my niece just turned four years old this year, but she was three at the time she told me that she didnt want to be brown anymore because she needed to be white so that she could be the princess and where the pretty pink dress. This is a conversation that i think black families know we are going to have with our daughters. We know we are going to have it with our young daughters. I didnt expect to have it with my threeyearold niece. I thought this is going to come at six or seven or eight. That is what i mean the experience about being an american is very different in colored skin. We have to look at our sons and say, perception does this for your life. We have to look at our daughters and say, perception does this for your life. Sort of guarded their minds and hearts and souls about it. My question is, how do we, in an integrated community, make that experience real for people who dont live it but will still have to make decisions about georgeour ground laws, zimmerman verdicts, Trayvon Martin, those everyday things that for us are so personal, but to them are another day in the life . I Wonder Within our own selves, have we had a conversation . Why arent we having the conversation amongst ourselves . Why do we want other folks to understand first . We dont even understand it. We dont have a conversation about i will tell you one thing i have seven children. My sister raised my two older daughters. My sister suggested to my second daughter that she marry an older man, because an older man had security, right . He would be able to offer her what she needed because he worked for some time and amassed the money. Our own perception do you understand what im saying . Our own perception within our own culture, i dont understand why my sister would tell my daughter this. Two very quick things. Youing a daughter, i feel on the princess thing, but i want to be careful about overly genedering it. The perceptions are not just about a feminine experience, but also the surveillance of the state on black women and poor itand latinas doesnt always look like stop and frisk. Sometimes it does, by the way. Sometimes it looks like something different. Veillance around anything your point about, if your child is in the free lunch program, then your whole family is under state surveillance, right . The second thing i want to say, lets be careful about the assumption that anything going on with us internally, psychologically is the cause of our inequality. One of the most important things you said an integrated community where do you live . Communities are not integrated. One of the things that black folks would realize if we spent itime with what people have lived in chicago, taught at princeton, i have seen a lot of white people it turns out a lot of people are deeply screwed up. A lot of white mothers are screwed up. A lot of what people feel bad about themselves. A lot of what people do drugs. A lot of white people rape other people. A lot of what people have all kinds of negative emotions and feelings. Some have had a bad life experiences. Many white people are not ethical or moral or have it together. They have all kinds of cash. I have resources, opportunity, privilege. I dont mean each and every white person, but as a group, the median white person is no more inherently together than the median person of color. But the median white house sold is shielded from the realities of humanity, the frailties, the fragilitys of loving the wrong person, marrying the wrong person, making bad decisions. They are not protected from it because they have worked out their angst about being descended from slaveholders. Doings not why they are better. They are doing better because they are not under state surveillance. The whole breaking bad series series, doing all these things, not going to jail, all because hes white. Im sorry, i just went on a whole thing. [applause] i need to say this. It is killing me. Please. [laughter] sheriffs comed into our neighborhoods, they walked out of the Police Station using the acronym f they come out of the door, holster down, strapped up, saying they are about to go have fun in our neighborhood. This one thingy quickly because i always tell aries. You tellrea them sometimes it is not the right time to be tried full. I had both my children by the time i was 16. Because i was struggling with my sexuality at the time and i really tried to like boys. It didnt work in that way. I have no problem saying that at this time in my life, but at 12th and 13 i was unclear about what that looked like. I knew one thing, when i had my son in the city of new orleans. My big fear was that he would either go to jail or end up dead. I did everything i could by age 18 or 19 to move us to a very white midcity. We were one of three black families. I was hired when i was 18 my employer saw something in me. She saw something. What is important about that is what i was exposed to or what i had access to as 18 mom in this city. Called gave me a book black mothers and their sons, how to raise them and not ka bedle. I taught my son to prideful. I told him to ask the officer why are you stopping me. Incarceratedbeen and never got to jail. I asked him how many times his mother argued with the police and said if you do not remove my son, because you have no legal right to hold him, it is going to be something. What is your badge number . Or every time he came home at age 12 saying mom, what is my Social Security number . I wasnt poor enough so i didnt get any assistance. Police every time the saw me they said the next time i see you you better know it. A pridefulm to be black man. I needed him to know he had a right to speak up for himself. Every time they would do that we would go to the Police Integrity and i would demand an apology every time. Everyhis day when time you stop in the car, he will dial his mom and say theyre pulling me over, the kids are in the car. I do think you meant anything by it ist i wanted to say one thing when you talk about ego, but pride is something we have to teach. It kept him alive and not from most of the things that most of us fear, because he really wasnt in that environment. It kept him alive in dealing with the other fear, the other people that could have taken his life. That is very powerful when i think about when your kid gets old enough to not call you. Is 30. My partner and i are raising a sevenyearold. My partner says please help you, cops chase you. Im going to go back to my prison nation thing. Part of the prison nation is what captures our minds and our spirits. Disney does that to black girls. It is a to all girls, but to me, i think about trying to build a world where we are not involved in corporate driven capitalist consumption that leads black girls to one long blonde hair aat can get them out of a tower, rapunzel. I want to have a world where that is not the standard of beauty. If that captures your mind the same way that a cop chases you down im not sure and say theyre the same thing because they are materially very different experiences, that the possibility of building a different kind of world says that there is beauty in all shapes and colors and sizes and genders. Marriage equality is important not because we can get married but because people respect to we love and respect our family, right . It reframes things in a certain way. Pride is always important in that project. It always says who i am, what i do, how are live, what i love, what i live through is as anyone else. We will me, is when start to decrease their use of the state to enforce certain standards of normative video. Ity. One of the things i want to commend you all for, i know for a view. You are all my heroes. The thing is about this whole event is that it has been a long time coming. When you talk about incarceration, we think about males only. Having been on that side of the fence, i always wondered about implications and complications of females have. For females going to the same age, i go to jail at 35, she was more than i lose. I can moderate 60 and can still be someone who procreate who can procreate. For female she cant do that. Every time we talk about it we envision what happens in angola and not what is going on in one horse towns were females are being incarcerated. 800ears ago there were females incarcerated in his state. It would so many now be considered alarming. I really encourage you to get one of ourth partners. Tulane has been good with the service. Folks are coming in and helping in the community. I remember bill clinton saying one time, and down out of the peanut gallery, get out of the ring, roll up your sleeves and do some work. Exactly. [applause] cant imagine a more fitting way in the city of new orleans to and any panel on incarceration than to have noris stand up and tell us to roll up our sleeves and do work. I also appreciated in part because there is this way in which we talk about men and women during our first assumption is husbands and wives or romantic partners. We forget the partnership is great, my husband is but that is not what were going for. Here is about the ability to Work Together as peers. When i appreciate is that these sheroic. I appreciate noris representing that. I do want to thank tulane for bringing the folks in tonight and for putting this together. I want to thank the community at tulane for engaging in the Difficult Conversations that are part of reading michele alexanders book together and the differences of opinion but that will undoubtedly bring up. I want to thank each and because the work you do is thankless work or thanked by only a few. I will say right now that i appreciate that you kept bringing us back to this idea of. Ision if we cant imagine a world that is different my daughter parker is in sixth grade. She spent this week having to memorize the second paragraph of the declaration of independence. That said, she was very irritated by having to learn this and kept expressing her irritation as being that it wasnt true, that racism and , all theselavery words were just words and they were true. Fan of the declaration of independence. It doesnt matter fully that they were true in that moment in 1776, they constituted a vision of what was possible. The notion of a matching a world where all people are created where they are endowed to something beyond the state in these fundamental rights and yet the state exists and is legitimate only to the extent that it protects those rights and protects them for all persons and for selfevidently quality. I appreciate you for reminding us that we have to keep asioning, even if we live in world where empirical realities are different thing. We have to keep imagining a world where the men arent missing front communities, where that our racial differences make us inherently children are are coconspirators in a crimes. I appreciate it because it is a new sort of declaration of independence. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] on we, weve been bringing you one corner presentations of q and a in primetime. Emeritus richard baker, coauthor of a historical narrative titled the american senate, and insiders guide. Heres an inside look at our conversation. Today, the u. S. Senate continues as the most powerful upper house of any legislative body in the world. What does that mean yea . Many have upper houses that are just a legislative stamp. The house of lords. Canada. Quick the lower house passes the substantive legislation and goes to the upper house. Maybe they dont like it. They say, we respect your opinion but we will pass it again and that it becomes law of the land. They have absolute veto over the body. Fundamental difference in those that can vote. They can be a little impetuous and their decisions. Body and tooling slow down. And to ask as one senator said, the senate is the place of sober Second Thought and that is what the framers of the constitution had in mind. Coming up in tonights year in review, a look at events that led to the 16day shutdown. House debate to my congressional briefings, and insight from reporters who covered the story tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. At 9 00 tom a first ladies jacqueline kennedy, her childhood, images, international fame, the tragedy of a grieving widow. A special twohour encore tonight at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. We now have secular norms instead of theological lawns t govern our except dense that govern our acceptance. First, branch davidian. Koresh saying he has special insight in the bible. They understand that they are and that the and times by itself does not appear to be a problem. When it leads to other elements that trigger both law could discern as well as the popular press is concerned, then suddenly this god of someone listening to and having his followers do something aberrant to norms is dangerous and it needs to be policed and controlled. Professorn religion arguing that religious persecution in america has prevalence since the mid1800s. Sunday night at 9 00 on doc awards on book tv this weekend on cspan 2. Had waited until the last moment. Het is when he realized decided to go. He told james the night of november 17 that he had time to write about half the speech. He wrote the speech late. He invited people to go, he took care and attention overheads over his words. The president s plan and approach for the speech. Sunday at 11 00 a. M. Eastern part of American History tv on cspan 3. The event is seeking to draw National Awareness of elementary and itcy in the uk includes combating youth unemployment, gaining quality workexperience, and experience for teenagers. The speaker of the house provided over the session which includes remarks from other members of parliament. Now the third motion of the day relates to combating youth unemployment as print on the order papers. I call and ask you to welcome from the northwest of england mr. Steven atkins. [applause] thank you, mr. Speaker. There are 965,000 young people currently unemployed in our country. It is enough to fill the Olympic Stadium 12 times over, or to put it into perspective, if i spoke for one second, only one second, for every young person that was unemployed, i would be standing here for over 11 days. Now, dont worry, mr. Speaker, i will not be that long, but that would be good, right . Every figure represents a young person by being given no hope for the future, and there is a story that once had potential. Generation jobless are meant to be the citizens of today, creating a Brighter Future for t